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Tempest clone Anonymous 06/21/15 (Sun) 00:25:07 No.880

Are there any libre tempest clones? I really fell in love with torus trooper but I can't seem to find a source and don't have a binary package for my distro (although Wikipedia claims that all ABA games are libre). Torus trooper is a tempest clone, basically you can move your spaceship between multiple lanes and shoot at enemies moving towards you (see video). Other tempest clones are typhoon 2001 and Arashi for Mac OS.

The faster the better. Preferably in 3D and minimalist graphics.

Anonymous 06/21/15 (Sun) 18:17:16 No.884

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ttrooper/files/Torus%20Trooper%20binary_source/0.22b/tt-0.22b.tar.gz/download

>Compiling:

>Install the OpenGL development libraries. (This is the hard part.)

>Install the D compiler, version 0.106. (http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.106.zip) Note that this is non-libre, so if you can't run the binary, you're out of luck. If you don't like it, talk to digitalmars. I don't like it either. Also, any later versions of the D compiler will NOT work. 0.106 or earlier is needed. As a final note, the resultant binary will not work on other computers, due to problems in the D compiler.

>Install SDL_mixer.

>Compile bulletml with "make" in the lib/bulletml directory.

>Compile with "ant".

>Known Issues:

>The compiler is non-libre. Compiling on non-x86 platforms is unlikely to work.

Now that is from the official page on sourceforge but the boys over at debian appear to have it working with GDC, which uses GCC as the backend.

Not sure if they patched that to work of if GDC can do it now where it couldn't before. In any case here is the debian source page.

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/torus-trooper

Good luck dude.

Anonymous 06/24/15 (Wed) 10:45:28 No.899

>>880

>>884

It just occurred to me, if you want I can make it for you. Either a release or distro package? Let me know.

Anonymous 06/28/15 (Sun) 12:16:30 No.912

>>884

Thanks for the info, I have no idea how I missed the source.

I'm on freeBSD and dmd didn't exist for freeBSD until somewhere into version 2, so 0.106 is just a windows and a linux binary. GDC doesn't seem to exist as a package on freeBSD, which means it won't be trivial to compile that one. LDC is a frontend to LLVM but the port is marked broken since 2013, so I doubt I'll be able to build that either.

I guess I'll have to look for another game or write my own (in C). But thanks for the help.